Individual handheld filled food products comprising edible enclosing tube(s)

Abstract

A sandwich wrap including a flexible, edible sheet that is adapted to enfold an edible filling whereby the resulting enclosing tube has both ends open and an auxiliary support situated under the lowermost open end when the wrap is held vertically for consumption, thus restraining filling from exiting. A method using an assembly frame positions the auxiliary support. Filling is stocked in a capped filling storage tube including at least two components that can be disassembled from inside the edible enclosing tube to give the edible enclosed filling. The food product may include a set of separately enclosed different fillings and each edible enclosing tube may be shaped around the filling storage tube to give a cross-sectional form of a circle sector so that the set forms a right circular cylinder. A seepage container assists assembly in advance of an order to avoid impairment by moisture seeping out of fillings.

The invention claimed is: 
     
       1. An individual handheld food product, comprising:
 a plurality of edible enclosing tubes formed of a baked or dry fried dough material, each of the plurality of edible enclosing tubes having,
 an open upper end and an open lower end, which define a height therebetween and which define an axis therebetween that is oriented generally vertically when the food product is eaten, 
 a lower end region proximate the open lower end, and 
 an upper end region proximate the open upper end; 
 
 a plurality of edible fillings, each of the plurality of edible fillings comprises a different type of food that is separately contained in respective ones of the plurality of edible enclosing tubes; and 
 an auxiliary support defining a recess that accommodates the lower end regions of all of the edible enclosing tubes, the auxiliary support is fitted over the open lower ends of all of the edible enclosing tubes and forms an interference fit with a surface of the lower end region of each of the edible enclosing tubes to hold the lower end regions of the edible enclosing tubes together, the auxiliary support having at least one side wall that is disposed around the lower end regions of all of the edible enclosing tubes, and a solid bottom wall that extends across the open lower ends of all of the edible enclosing tubes for supporting the plurality of edible enclosing tubes and for preventing the edible fillings from escaping from the open lower ends of the edible enclosing tubes; 
 wherein the plurality of edible enclosing tubes are disposed contiguously side-by-side one another; 
 wherein each of the edible enclosing tubes has a cross-sectional shape of a sector of a circle, such that the plurality of edible enclosing tubes together form a generally cylindrical shaped food product; and 
 wherein the at least one side wall of the auxiliary support has a height that is in a range of 5% to 33% of the height of each of the edible enclosing tubes, resulting in each of the edible enclosing tubes extending beyond the height of the at least one side wall of the edible auxiliary support. 
 
     
     
       2. The food product according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one side wall of the auxiliary support has a height of between about 1 cm and about 5 cm. 
     
     
       3. The food product according to  claim 1 , wherein each of the edible enclosing tubes of the plurality of edible enclosing tubes is formed by wrapping a generally square or rectangular edible enclosing sheet around a corresponding one of the plurality of edible fillings. 
     
     
       4. The food product according to  claim 1 , further comprising a removable filling storage tube interposed between each of the edible enclosing tubes and a respective one of the plurality of edible fillings. 
     
     
       5. The food product according to  claim 1 , further comprising a removable seepage container fitted to the open upper end of at least one of the edible enclosing tubes of the plurality of edible enclosing tubes. 
     
     
       6. The food product according to  claim 5 , wherein the seepage container is fitted over the open upper ends of the plurality of edible enclosing tubes. 
     
     
       7. The food product according to  claim 1 , wherein the height of the food product is between about 5 cm and about 25 cm. 
     
     
       8. The food product according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one side wall of the auxiliary support has a height that is in a range of 10% to 25% of a height of the plurality of edible enclosing tubes. 
     
     
       9. The food product according to  claim 8 , wherein the at least one side wall of the auxiliary support has a height that is in a range of 12% to 18% of a height of the plurality of edible enclosing tubes. 
     
     
       10. The food product according to  claim 1 , wherein the auxiliary support is formed of an edible material. 
     
     
       11. The food product according to  claim 1 , wherein the auxiliary support is formed of an unleavened dough material. 
     
     
       12. The food product according to  claim 11 , wherein the auxiliary support is baked. 
     
     
       13. The food product according to  claim 1 , wherein the interference fit between the auxiliary support and the surface of the lower end region of each of the edible enclosing tubes inhibits the auxiliary support from becoming detached from the edible enclosing tubes.